[Haskell-beginners] Large binary overhead?

[Christopher Howard]

On 05/25/2011 08:02 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> Christopher Howard wrote:
> 
>> I'm still going through the GHC tutorial, so be patient with me: But why
>> is it that my GHC-produced executables are always so large? Even my one
>> line Hello World program ends up being over 500KB. I thought maybe it
>> was because all of the functionality was statically compiled in, but I
>> used ldd and saw that my hello world binary links dynamically to 10
>> different C libraries.
> 
> Its that size because the Haskell libraries are statically linked
> into your program.
> 
> See this SO question/answer:
> 
>    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6115459/small-haskell-program-compiled-with-ghc-into-huge-binary
> 
> Erik

Thanks! Great link! I only wish I had known about that sooner... It
looks like I'll need to reinstall at least a few dozen modules with
--enabled-shared. I'm surprised that cabal-install doesn't enable that
by default.

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